Announcements

On Wednesday and Thursday, June 1 and 2, the Colorado Bar Association will host its annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute in Denver. This year's theme is best practices - best practices for patent prosecutors and litigators, trademark and copyright practitioners, and licensing and deal attorneys.
The institute will...

In Partnership with the Boston University School of Management, the Association of Corporate Counsel will present Business Education for In-House Counsel in the following upcoming segments:the Mini MBA for In-House Counsel will be held on June 13-15 and on June 15-17, and the Advanced Mini MBA for In-House Counsel will be held on June 14-16.Leading...

This spring, ACI will offer Global Export Controls Compliance to address the needs of businesses that must ensure compliance with foreign requirements that are often new, unclear and complex. Professionals must vet and monitor worldwide business partners and intermediaries, and with increased cooperation between U.S. and foreign enforcement authorities, a...

On Friday, May 6, the Colorado Bar Association will present the 43rd Annual Rocky Mountain Securities Conference at the Marriott City Center Hotel, 1701 California Street in Denver.
An impressive lineup of speakers and topics has been planned. Using a panel discussion format, the topics to be covered include enforcement in an era of reform and...

The New York County Lawyers Association will offer a program examining Microfinance Law and Practice on Wednesday, May 11, at NYCLA, 14 Vesey Street in New York City.
The event begins at noon and ends at 3:00 p.m.
Microfinance is a term used to describe financial services available to low-income individuals or to those without access to traditional...

Join Jones Day on Wednesday, June 22, for Growing Your Business: How to Handle Regulatory Hurdles Both Before and After They Arise at the offices of Jones Day located at 51 Louisiana Avenue, NW in Washington, DC. It runs from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and breakfast will be served.
In today's post-recession economic environment, both small and large businesses...

The Colorado Bar Association has scheduled a two-day Employment Law Conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 24 and 25, at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Denver.
It will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and from 9:00 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. on Wednesday.
This program will cover a range of issues for the new and seasoned practitioner, from...

On Thursday, May 26, the New York County Lawyers Association will host their Annual Meeting and Induction of Officers and Directors.
It will be located at St. Paul's Chapel at Broadway and Vesey Street in New York City and will begin at 5:30 p.m. A reception will immediately follow at the New York County Lawyers Association's Home of Law, 14 Vesey Street...

On Thursday, June 30, the DC Bar invites members and nonmembers to attend the 2011 Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner to celebrate the extraordinary work of individual sections, pro bono attorneys, law firms, and others whose service to the bar and the community will be recognized.
The evening begins with a networking reception from 7:00 until 7:30 p.m....

On Thursday, June 23, the State Bar of Arizona will examine the Ins & Outs of Intellectual Property.
The event will run from 1:30 to 4:20 p.m. at the Daniel J. McAuliffe CLE Center, 4201 North 24th Street in Phoenix.
Peter Goldman, a registered patent attorney at Deconcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, and Kevin Yeanoplos, an IP valuation...

DOAR Litigation Consulting will hold a CLE presentation on Wednesday, May 18, at the company's state-of-the-art Digital Courtroom, 170 Earle Avenue in Lynbrook, New York. It begins with breakfast at 8:00 a.m. and the presentation from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Titled Data Collection, Review & Production: Use of Analytics, Review Methodologies, and...

On Wednesday, May 18, the DC Bar Association will hold a program titled Essential Checklist for Electronic Discovery in 2011 at the DC Bar Association, 1101 K. Street, NW, Washington, DC. It will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The course will offer a guide to practitioners seeking proper management of discoverable information stored in electronic...

Geared toward seasoned federal court practitioners or those entering the courts for the first time, Federal Practice Update 2011 was designed to arm lawyers with the latest wisdom that the faculty - experienced federal attorneys and distinguished magistrate judges - will share.
The update will be held on Friday, May 20, at the CLECI Large Classroom,...

Join the American Conference Institute for a two-day seminar looking into Wage & Hour Claims and Class Actions on Monday and Tuesday, May 23 and 24, at the New York Marriott Downtown, 85 West Street in New York City.
The conference starts Monday at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 5:30 p.m. On Tuesday the program begins at 8:15 a.m. and will adjourn at 3:15 p...

On Thursday, May 19, the DC Bar Association will offer a program looking into the new business entities law in the DC metro area - Choosing and Forming a Business Entity in the DC Metro Area: The New DC Law.It will be held at the DC Bar Association, 1101 K Street, NW in Washington, DC, and it will run from 6:00 to 9:15 p.m.
The District of Columbia has...

Austin is the location of a two-day Labor and Employment Law Conference hosted by the University of Texas School of Law on Thursday and Friday, May 12 and 13.
It will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday at the AT&T Conference Center - Hotel at UT in Austin.
The program will offer an update on...

On Tuesday, May 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the Boston Bar Association and the South Asian Bar Association are hosting a free social media workshop at the Boston Bar Association's conference center, 16 Beacon Street in Boston. The workshop features Professor Sree Sreenivasan of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where he has been on the faculty...

On May 18, the Practising Law Institute is planning a seminar to examine recent Delaware Law Developments: What All Business Lawyers Need to Know. The event will be at the PBI CLE Conference Center located at the Wanamaker Building in Central Philadelphia. It begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m.
Delaware law plays a critical role in U.S. corporate...

On Friday, May 27, the State Bar of Texas will offer the Bill of Rights Course in Austin.
It will run from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Texas Law Center, 1414 Colorado Street.
Cosponsored by the Individual Rights and Responsibilities and the LGBT Sections of the state bar,the course will examine the following issues:U.S. and Texas Supreme Court...

The New York County Lawyers Association offers a two-part series on How to Handle an Employment Discrimination Case, with the first part on Monday, May 16, and the second part on Monday, May 23. It will be held at NYCLA, 14 Vesey Street in New York City. Each session begins at 6:00 p.m. and ends at 9:00 p.m.
Attendees will learn the basics of how to...

The Association of Corporate Counsel has chosen New Orleans as the site for its two-day Corporate Counsel University.
It will run from Sunday to Tuesday, May 15 to 17, at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. An opening reception will begin the program on Sunday at 5:30. On Monday the program will run from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and on Tuesday it will run...

New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) President Stephen P. Younger released a report addressing a "sea change" within the profession and offering innovative recommendations for restructuring law firm operations, implementing new billing practices, improving training of new lawyers, enhancing work-life balance for attorneys, and using technology to deal...

Seventy percent of compliance professionals feel that their organizations are well or very well prepared to fend off hacker attacks, however their confidence wanes significantly when assessing other data breach threats, according to a survey conducted by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA...

On Wednesday, May 11, the San Francisco ACC chapter will explain how to put in place a cohesive, efficient and streamlined program to manage and extract the value from brand investments.
The seminar, Global Trademark Portfolio Management: How to Build It, How to Budget It, will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Crown Plaza Cabana Palo Alto....

The New York State Bar Association presents a timely program entitled Employment Law for the General Practitioner and Corporate Counselor. It will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18, at the Ramada Hotel & Conference Center, 2402 North Forest Road in Amherst, New York.
Among the faculty are Ronald G. Dunn, Gleason Dunn Walsh &...